Joe Donnellan

Title: Director of Leisure Travel

I was born and raised in the Galway countryside. I learned how to work hard on our dairy farm and there were days I would milk 800+ cows at 3 different farms. This partly helped me through college in Galway and for about a year after until I decided that wasn’t the life for me.

I absconded to Boston and started working at Crystal Travel a year later and have never looked back. I ended up working in travel by accident but cannot imagine a better or more fulfilling career. 

 

Favorite tour at the moment: Locals & Legends

Your best travel advice: The world is almost infinitely massive – don’t go where everyone else is going!

Best trip ever: Faroe Islands is a special place or Dubrovnik with a day tour to Montenegro – it was all about the incredible scenery and culture on both trips.

Next of the list: There are a few corners of Ireland that I still need to see, as well as some of the Isles (Islay, Shetlands, Outer Hebrides) in Scotland. Cornwall in England is a must, too. Outside of those, Slovenia and Albania are high on my list. 

Tell us something we don’t know about you: Growing up, we used to go on family holidays around Ireland every year, and I never appreciated them until I was an adult.